20 October : Mater Admirabilis

Prayer on the Feast of Mater

Mother most admirable,

guardian of our interior life, we come to ask you to detach us,
to loosen our grasp on visible things and lead us back
to the invisible which your eyes behold:

the invisible presence
the invisible life
the invisible action
the invisible love

all these realities of Faith which are, for us, eternal values.

When we are preoccupied in the activity of the visible, keep us in the light of the unseen, and make us strong as though we beheld the invisible. Give us, we ask, a hunger and thirst for the essential: the will of God and the work of God's love to which we have been consecrated.

0 Virgin of the Invisible and the Essential, to you we commit the interior life of the Society and our own union with the Heart of Jesus, your Divine Son. Make us, in truth, Religious of the Sacred Heart and instruments of Christ'_ love by our interior fidelity to the action of the Spirit of God in our lives.

Amen.

adapted from a prayer of
Marie-Therese de Lescure rscj